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Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Hello there, I'm here today with a little more inspiration for the
current challenge theme of Paper Piecing at Make My Monday chosen by yours truly in the
form of a tag using one of my favourite stamps at the moment, a Prima
doll by the very talented collage artist Julie Nutting. Hope you like
it.

I
made the tag for this myself using the rather natty tag style packaging
that comes with the doll as a pattern to cut my tag from thick white
card. This is mainly because the doll is an amazing 19cm tall so needs
something quite large as a base.
I coloured the tag by applying
Peacock Feathers Distress ink to some crumpled wax paper, spritzing on a
little water then swiping the tag over until it was covered in the
slightly diluted ink. I then applied more of the ink direct from the pad
with a sponge using my favourite Prima stencil - Flourish.
I stamped some of
the borders from the Prima Welcome To Paris cling set with Memories
black ink and added a couple of rows of faux stitching made with theTim
Holtz ruler and a fine black pen.
I stamped the doll on thick
smooth cartridge paper and just the frock element on some Crate Paper
decorated paper from the DIY Shop paper pad with black ink. I coloured
the doll parts with Aquamarkers then cut her out along with the frock
and added the frock to the image with double sided tape.
I made a
layered flower with some plain Prima flowers and a patterned one using
the same paper die cut using a Hot Off The Press Bodacious Blooms die
set. I added a small paper rose to the centre.
I assembled the tag
as you see, adding some cream crochet lace, a dotty black bow and some
Paper Artsy text with some hessian type wired leaves.

I hope you're now inspired to enter if you haven't done so already as it really is very easy to paper piece!

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About Me

My name is Felicity but all my friends call me Fliss. I've been married to my hubby Andrew for 35 years and we have 2 grown up children.
If you haven't guessed from the title, I can say that I'm totally addicted to stamping! I've been stamping for over 15 years and absolutely love mixed media and nature which feature quite a lot in my artwork. I also love bright colours so those appear rather a lot!